The Hot 100 is our list of Scotland’s 100 hottest individuals and groups who’ve made a splash this year, from comic book writers to comedians, artists to actors. If they've contributed to Scotland's cultural landscape in 2013, you'll find them here.

18 RM Hubbert

Having his SAYThoroughly deserved Scottish Album of the Year Award winner: need we say more? Yes we do actually, because Glaswegian maestro of haunting solo guitar symphonies Hubbert has since followed-up 2012’s Thirteen Lost & Found with the equally fine Breaks & Bone. (MJ)

16 Cry Parrot

Fashionable festivalsIn its sixth year, the independent promoter continued to offer a gloriously eclectic programme of gigs. A Dundee leg has been added to the annual Music Language festival and Scottish underground talent were showcased at Suoni Per Il Popolo in Montreal. (SS)Photo: Peter Davidson.

15 David Shrigley

Art giantList favourite Shrigley became the latest Glasgow artist to make it on to the Turner Prize shortlist for his solo show at the Hayward Gallery, bringing his dark comedic work to Britain’s biggest contemporary art prize with a life-sized urinating nude figure. (RT)

14 The Vintage

Progressive pubThe Leith bar became the first ever pub to win an Eating & Drinking Guide Best Newcomer Award, elbowing aside notable restaurants with a combination of cutting-edge craft beer and an enlightened menu pushing fine British charcuterie to the fore. (DR)

12 Boards of Canada

Reaping rewardsIt wasn’t just Tomorrow’s Harvest, their first studio album in eight years, which relaunched the faceless but much-adored Pentlands electronic duo to attention. Preceding it, a baffling but ingenious pre-release campaign had seen clues to unlocking the promotional website hidden in YouTube clips, on limited edition vinyl records and in adverts. (DP)

11 Armando Iannucci

From DC to NorwichLast year’s Hot 100 champ is still one of the UK’s wittiest commentators. Iannucci has continued to work his magic as the creator of HBO comedy Veep (the series has really found its voice with season two and shed its ‘transatlantic The Thick of It’ tag) and as co-writer behind the mighty Alan Partridge movie Alpha Papa. (HN)